[Python-Dev] OS-X builds for 3.7.0

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/31/2018 6:23 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 4:20 AM, INADA Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com 
> <mailto:songofacandy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     > Against the official CPython 3.6 (probably .3 or .4) release I see:
>     > 1 that is 2.01x faster (python-startup, 24.6ms down to 12.2ms)
>     > 5 that are >=1.5x,<1.6x faster.
>     > 13 that are >=1.4x,<1.5x faster.
>     > 21 that are >=1.3x,<1.4x faster.
>     > 14 that are >=1.2x,<1.3x faster.
>     > 5 that are >=1.1x,<1.2x faster.
>     > 0 that are < 1.1x faster/slower.
>     >
>     > Pretty good numbers overall I think.
> 
>     Yay!!  Congrats for all of us!
> 
> 
> I'm confused -- I _think_ these are performance improvements of the 
> Anaconda build over the python.org <http://python.org> build for OS-X -- 
> so congrats to the Anaconda team :-)
> 
> But a hint that maybe we should do the python.org <http://python.org> 
> builds differently!

Ned Deily is in charge of the Mac build (as well as current release 
manager).  Within the last week, he revised the official builds (now 
two, I believe) for 3.7.0b1, due in a day or so.  One will be a future 
oriented 64-bit build.  The PR and What's New have more.

He may not be reading this thread, but will read MacOS tracker issues 
with a specific proposal, data and a patch.  Comparisons should be 
against the current master or an installed 3.7.0b1.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy